OR THE HUNDRED VERSES OX RENUNCIATION 2g
��etc. Knowledge free from defect not been mastered ; ^'tfg^Hlflr means 'free from Doctrines incapable of proof/ f^r ^T etc. riches are earned. U^^TpT etc. Services to parents not been rendered with single-mindedness. etc. . Like crows, all the time has been I>a.ssed in greediness for food, i. e. maintenance, obtainable from others,,
[These three stanzas (nos. 45, 46, 47) strike a
- "a.ther anomalous note. Here the poet personates
a. man whose life has been, like the lamp burning
iriL a deserted abode, a thorough failure. Such a
ixian is looking back on his youthful years of uiv
ttutigated worthlessness. But are the reflections he
Is making here typical of those who are at the
tlireshold of true renunciation ? By no means are
they typical. The poet here simply takes up a
[particular case of an aspirant after renunciation
"which may just serve his poetical purposes best
This aspirant has had in his youth no taste of glory
either as a pious man, a dutiful son, a scholarly
student, a brave warrior or a lover of women. He
appears to lament here that none of the fourfold
aims of human life (spwji, religious merit; unf
wealth ; gfflW, fulfilment of desires, and TNf, final
salvation) has been pursued by him in the past with
any the slightest success. Perhaps be means that
that is best calculated to impress on his mind the
^vanity of all the ends of a householder's life. But
"this impression of vanity and consequent non-
attachment may very well come, and come witfa
perhaps greater completeness, to men who had the
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